Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Students are admitted to this department at any stage of the course. They must confer with the Director of the de- partment to determine what work they can properly carry. They will be assigned to such grade as their requirements in- dicate. Term tickets must be procured before entering upon the work. SCHOOL OF PAINTING. Before commencing work in the studio, art students must procure tickets for the same, and talk with the head of the department as to plans of work and proficiency — if any — already gained. The order and kind of work must be subject to the judgment of the professor in charge. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. The literary attainments of students entering this depart- ment vary greatly, and hence they must be treated according to individual qualifications. The Principal must, therefore, be acquainted with the fitness of each on entering. This can only be done by full and free conference with him. PREPARATORY SCHOOL. The College maintains a preparatory school for several reasons : — 1. Many young people desire to fit themselves for col-

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18 ALBION COLLEGE The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seat- ing for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstration lecture table containing pneumatic cis- tern, oxygen tanks, exhaust, gas, water, sinks, battery with ventilating hood in rear. Each floor is provided with a capacious dispensing room where chemicals and apparatus are stored to be issued to the student as required. The General and Qualitative Chemical Laboratory on the second floor is equipped with ninety working tables, each having a sink hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. From the adjacent dispensing room may be obtained all chemicals or apparatus required in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where is located laboratories for Quan- titative, Organic and Technical Chemistry. Every facility is afforded for thorough work. Attached to the laboratories on the second floor is a thoroughly equipped weighing room containing accurate bal- ances, specific gravity apparatus, etc. In the basement is located the Laboratory for Portland Cement and Assaying, providing all the necessary apparatus for the physical testing of cement and the assaying of ores. Here are crucible and muffle furnaces, both coal and gas, for the fire assay of ores and also crushing, pulverizing and sampling apparatus, tensile strength machines, specific grav- ity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the prac- tical handling of cements and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special reference to its application in the manufacture of illuminat- ing gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is con- stantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw materials for manufacturing purposes, such as clays, marls, peat, coal, gold and silver ores, iron and steel, sanitary and mineral waters.

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20 ALBION COLLEGE lege, but reside in communities which are not provided witn high school advantages. 2. In many of the graded schools of the State, the work is not sufficiently extended to prepare the student for admis- sion into college classes. 3. Many of the high schools of the State do not provide instruction that will prepare for all lines of college work. Some have only an English course, others English and Scien- tific courses, etc. Many students desire to study Latin, Greek, German, etc., in preparation for college, who are unable to find adequate provision for the same in their home graded schools. Candidates for admission into the Preparatory depart- ment must have a knowledge of the primary branches, in- cluding geography, arithmetic, grammar and spelling, so far as will fit them to take up the work of the first year. Start- ing with this preparation, those who are studious will be able to complete the course prescribed in four years and to enter the Freshman class. For advanced standing, examina- tions must be passed on that part of the course for which credit is given, or on work equivalent thereto, unless certifi- cates are brought for the same from accredited schools.